-157* 
throughout the State. Among the species that have been received 
are the following! Me tr i on a bicolor Fab,, C hi rid- guttata 01 iv. , 
Motriona bivittata Say, and Chelynorph a cassidea Fab. 
Almost ail of these complaints have "been in regard to the 
injury' that these insects were causing to sweet potatoes. 
potato htd to : :ato 
COLORADO POT iff BEETLE ( Leptinotarsa decemlineata Say) 
Massachusetts A« I. Bourne (jure 22): The Colorado potato "beetle is present 
in normal abundance and doing the usual amount of injury. 
Michigan Philip Luginbill (June 2k): Cviposition of this species seems 
to be at its maximum on potatoes in a plot at the corn borer 
station at Monroe. 
Montana R, a* Cooley (June 7): This species varies in severity in 
different years and is prevalent and very abundant this season. 
Adults are destroying the tops of young potatoes,. This insect, 
which many years ago spread eastward from the Rocky Mountains 
and has gone all over the '-or Id, has only very recently srread 
into parts of western Montana and some localities are still 
free of it. 
PGI 410 FLEA BEETLE (Soit rix cucumeris H arr. ) 
A c I e Bourne (June 22): Potato flea beetlssin every section 
of the b^ate are reported to be present in large numbers. From 
our observations to date, however, they are no more than normally 
abundant, the usual amount of injury being observed. 
Hew York C R, Crosby and assistants (May 19 to June 11): Observed 
doing first .vork on May 19. Injury is probably not so severe 
as last year in ITassau County, for the potatoes have developed 
'notwithstanding the considerable injury noted* 
J. J. Davis (June 26): The black potato flea beetle has beei 
very abundant on potatoes at Veedersburg, La Fayette, and New 
Albany, Jane 1; Indianapolis, June 9; Greentown, June 12, 
Coatesville, June IS; and Lynn, June 2k. Damage to tomatoes 
was observed at La Fayette. 
TURNIP '.7EE7IL (Li stroderes obliouus Gyll.) 
J* M„ Robinson (June 18): The Australian tomato weevil, was 
sent in from Mobile County and ^as reported attacking tomatoes 
and -hite potatoes. 
A WEEVIL ( Li si 70 ' ;rea aui cal i s ^Taterh* ) 
Mississippi M. M« High (June 13): '.7e have just found two specimens of L. 
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